‘Two Sides of the Railway Tracks': Schooling and Communities in a Victorian Suburb: Birkdale

Birkdale may be considered as the West End of Southport… Strange to say, [it] is ahead of its larger sister town in having a school board, consisting of seven members, of whom one is lady. In spite of this separate rule, the two places practically count as one. The private schools are legion… Birkdale especially teems with them, there being brass plates on more gates than one could count. ¹